The Fluffiest Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Oatmeal meets pancakes with The Fluffiest Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pancakes. These pancakes are gluten-free, refined sugar-free and high in protein but are the most delicious, fluffiest pancakes you will ever eat. They will quickly become a weekend brunch recipe staple!

It happens all too frequently that there’s a recipe I make all the time but it never seems to make its way onto the blog. Sometimes it’s because I’m lazy, sometimes it’s because I think you guys may not like it, and sometimes it’s because I’m too damn hungry to set up a photoshoot.

The latter is precisely the case with these pancakes.

Pancakes are easy to make (once you get the flip down, which only took me 24 years to master!) but can be impossible to photograph. Ironically, I probably have more pancake recipes on THM than any other kind of recipes.

The part that stopped me from sharing these pancakes, which are by far the most common in our little casa is that I usually need to dig in right away. I obviously feel this way about all of my recipe, but one of my tricks to not eating my subject is to always eat something else before I shoot.

However, because pancakes are reserved for the weekend when they’re the first thing I eat when I wake up I never get a chance to eat before shooting. And I would probably keel over and die if I attempted the “syrup pour” while hangry.

Ninja skills are required to get that kind of shot.

Then one day I realized if I made a double batch, ate, threw the other half in the oven and then photographed AFTER eating, I might be able to finally share THE FLUFFIEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pancakes with all of you!

Better yet, if I fed C I could recruit him to help with the above photo. You know you’ve found a winner when he agrees to “carefully pour syrup in a luscious manner” all over your pancakes.

That sounds dirty.

Anyway, he apprehensively agreed (bribery with pancakes is key folks!) and helped me pull off the pancake syrup pour GIF I’ve been dreaming about in my head for 2 years now. Certainly a step up from that time I literally drowned my pancakes and completely missed the mark.

It also means I can finally share the best pancakes ever with you! DIG.IN.

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53 Comments

These look delish – could I use cows milk? Totally get the photo opportunity and reality. The times I’ve made something, carefully photographed how I make it then forget to shoot the finished (usually meal) item. I had to whip my hubby’s dinner outta the microwave, rearrange broccoli and snap a shot or 12 of the beef casserole I’d made!!
Thanks for this pancake recipe, I love oats and using oat flour is a genius way to get more goodness into our family. Thanks for letting us finally see the pancakes!! Sammie http://www.feastingisfun.com

I totally understand how your pancake recipe have never make it to the blog before, I make pancakes twice a week and in four years I’ve never photographed them to post! I’m glad you made a double batch this time though as I’ve looked at these photos and been inspired to grind some oat flour to try the recipe tomorrow morning 🙂 It’s the gif with the syrup that did it for me, I swear it gave me hunger pains!

Nikki

Haha there are so many breakfast recipes I make that I haven’t posted yet for the same reason – I always want to eat first thing in the morning, not spend an hour photographing! I’m glad you posted these though because they look awesome!

First off, I need this pancakes in my life! The hubby and I make pancakes every weekend as a way to start our weekend together. So these are being added into the mix! And second…oh the pour shot! Yours looks GREAT! I remember trying to pour a soda for an ice cream float. OMG. Soda foam everywhere. Then another time I pour dressing that I had thinned with water, went for the pour and it hit a piece of chicken sending the dressing all over my perfectly styled shoot. Ugh. I guess for every 1 good one we have so many awful ones 😉

I forget about posting the food I make daily, too, which is probably what we should be posting all the time, considering the recipes are time tested and good enough to make over and over.. I’m so glad you shared these fluffy pancakes! They look absolutely fabulous and I want to dig into a stack right now!

Oatmeal chocolate chip pancakes are one of my FAVORITE things to make… I never get sick of them! My go-to recipe is similar to yours – except for a few tweaks, like I usually add some mashed banana in there. SO GOOD!

Amanda F

March 24, 2015 at 3:12 pm

I’m definitely NOT a blogger. I do, however, post occasional pictures of the food I make on instagram or facebook. My husband, who rarely visits social media, was looking at facebook one day , saw a picture on facebook, and then asked, “Did you take this picture? It’s really good.” So.. I have hopes that my iphone photography is improving haha.

Caroline

August 8, 2015 at 10:22 am

Hello Davida, I tried your recipe and I LOVE IT! I have now stopped searching for that perfect recipe, because I had no luck until now. I cannot seem to acquire a taste for other flours like coconut flour, but the oat flour is great! These pancakes are easy to make, mild tasting, fluffy and goes very well with cooked fresh blueberries. I used a little “Just Like Sugar” to sweeten the blueberries. Thank you!

Gluten Free Mama

January 31, 2016 at 1:29 pm

These turned out heavy and dense and well, not at all for fluffy. And slightly bitter. I followed the recipe exactly except I omitted the choc chips. I’m curious if this is just a preference thing due to all the positive comments although most of them are about how they look and not actually how they tasted post actually trying them. My kids took one bite and spit them out. I’ve made many GF pancakes so I’m not a rookie … Also not a blogger. Any ideas ??

Jennifer

July 12, 2016 at 7:12 pm

You said.. “I also do not provide nutrition profiles on my recipes as I strongly believe that quality takes precedence to quantity.”
Except if your Diabetic and then Nutrition information is very very important..
Still won’t stop me from making these for my Type 1 daughter just wish I didn’t have to look up every single ingredient to be able to get a carb count

Kendall Stark

February 25, 2017 at 4:11 am

Hi, Davida! I stumbled upon your blog while searching for overnight oat recipes. I tried these pancakes this morning and they tasted fab! I do have to say that they weren’t fluffy, but more dense, which I did enjoy. A few weeks ago I tried your avocado chocolate chip muffins and they were also yummy. I’m not GF or vegan, but I am trying out new recipes that don’t include so many animal products or wheat, just to incorporate more variety into my diet. Going to make the oatmeal banana blender pancakes tomorrow….for dinner!

Deanna

April 6, 2017 at 11:07 am

Is this 2 cups of oats, then ground into flour?
Or 2 cups of already ground up oats? My magic bullet grinds them up super fine, so it would make a big difference if Inmixed it up!
Thanks, really looking forward to trying this recipe as soon as I hear back.

Sara

July 3, 2018 at 10:06 pm

I LOVE these pancakes. The day i realized they had more protein and less sugar than my favorite healthy banana pancakes was an exciting day- I had been trying not to make them too often, and now I feel good making them as often as I want. It is nice to get an early start on my chocolate consumption quota for the day Haha. I make a variety of healthy pancakes an average of 5 days per week, and this is one of my all time favorite pancake recipes. Seriously, thank you!